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This is an Industry Day presentation from the EPA regarding the Iron King Mine/Humboldt Smelter Superfund Site in Dewey-Humboldt, Arizona. The presentation outlines details for an Environmental Services IDIQ contract opportunity to remediate a former mining and smelting operation that operated from 1910-1970 (mine) and 1880s-1960s (smelter).

The cleanup scope involves two main components: 1) Residential remediation requiring sampling of 1,000 quarter-acre exposure units, with several hundred potentially needing cleanup through contaminated soil removal, disposal at the mine tailings pile, and property restoration, and 2) Waste area remediation involving consolidation of mine tailings, slag, and other contaminated materials into repositories. The procurement will be split into three IDIQs: Environmental Remediation ($5M-$100M, award Q1 FY26), Remedial Design ($5M-$49M, award Q2 FY26), and Remedial Action Construction ($5M-$249M, award Q2 FY27). The Industry Day is scheduled for January 28, 2025 at Gateway Community College in Phoenix, with separate sessions for remedial design (morning) and construction (afternoon). The Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District is managing the procurement, with EPA Region IX as the customer.

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Jeff Dhont, Remedial Project Manager U.S. EPA Region IX

Iron King Mine / Humboldt Smelter Superfund Site Industry Day Environmental Services IDIQ

January 28, 2025

Flagstaff

Phoenix

Tucson

Prescott

ARIZONA

Site Location: Dewey-Humboldt, Arizona

Prescott

Dewey-Humboldt

Operational History

Former Iron King Mine Property

Former Humboldt Smelter Property

Chaparral Gulch

Humboldt Town Proper

Agua Fria River

Iron King Mine:

Operated 1910 -1970 Zinc, Copper, Lead, Gold, Silver Biggest Production 1940s-1950s

Humboldt Smelter

– Making Pure Metals from Ore

Smelting Copper and Lead 2 Predecessor Smelters 1880s - 1904 Main facilities 1905-1937 Biggest Production 1914-1918 Other Operations 1940s, 1950s, 1960s

Val Verde Predecessor Smelter Destroyed by Fire 1904

Non-residential / Waste Areas

Residential Areas

Open Land North of Pile

Open Land South of Pile

Lower Gulch

Small Tailings Deposits

Small Slag Pile

South Smelter Plateau

Upper Gulch

Mine Tailings Pile

Waste Rock

Smelter Tailings Depression

Tailings Floodplain

Slag Wall

Dam

Middle Gulch

Mine Drainage Pathway

Dross Waste and Former Smelter

Operations

Non-Residential / Waste Bearing Areas

Selected Remedy

Waste Areas: Consolidation in Repositories

Residential Areas: Remove and replace surface soils

Residential Properties Remedial Action

Residential Remedial Action

Current sampling of 1000 exposure units of ¼ acre size

Remedial action may be necessary at several hundred exposure units

Task orders will include groups of exposure units identified for cleanup

Residential Cleanup

Resident signs Technical Excavation and Restoration Plan (TERP) (EPA)

Excavation of contaminated soils

Excavation area adjusted/expanded until EPC is below cleanup levels

Disposal of excavated soils at mine tailings pile

Backfill and compaction with clean fill

Restoration of property according to the TERP

Jeff Dhont, Remedial Project Manager U.S. EPA Region IX

Iron King Mine / Humboldt Smelter Superfund Site Industry Day

January 28, 2025

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